A special team led by Perumbavoor Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Anuj Paliwal has been formed to probe an alleged attack on police personnel by workers from other states working in a garment factory in Kizhakkambalam on Sunday morning.
Ernakulam Rural Police said that the 19-member team consists of two inspectors and seven sub-inspectors. A total of 156 workers of the factory were detained and kept in three different police stations under Ernakulam rural. Their role, if any, in the attack in which five personnel were injured is being ascertained.
Meanwhile, senior police officials including Deputy Inspector General Neeraj Kumar Gupta and District Police Chief (Ernakulam Rural) K Karthik visited the scene of the attack near the activists’ camp and took stock of the situation. A total of 500 policemen are camping on the spot. Shri Karthik said that measures would be taken to prevent recurrence of such incidents. Mr. Gupta and Mr. Paliwal met the injured personnel at a private hospital.
demands of parties
Meanwhile, the unprecedented violence of Kitex workers with the Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has turned political. [CPI(M)]Reiterating the demand for a thorough investigation against the company and the Twenty20 party controlled by it.
CPI(M) MLA PV Srinijin, representing Kizakambalam, alleged in a conversation Hindu That there were apprehensions of several illegal activities due to which he demanded an inquiry against the firm. “But then Sabu Jacob, MD, Kitex, raised the issue of harassment of business establishments and claimed that Kerala is not investor friendly. This forced the state to compromise,” he said.
Demands for an inquiry against the company were also echoed on social media, with Congress and left-leaning accounts criticizing Twenty20 for trying to establish a neo-feudal stronghold on the panchayat.
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